Authors whose first name starts with J, page 16 of 26

Jilliane Hoffman writes legal thrillers. Born on Long Island and trained in law at St. John's University in Queens, Hoffman puts prosecutors, murder trials and serial killers at the centre of her books, with Miami as the recurring setting. C.J. Townsend leads the first series, in Retribution (2003) and Last Witness (2005); FBI agent Bobby Dees the second, in Pretty Little Things (2010). Six books reach The Cutting Room (2015), at a median of 426 pages.

Jilly Cooper

50 books• 5 series

Dame Jilly Cooper (1937-2025) was an English journalist who became a novelist. Cooper started in journalism and published non-fiction on class, animals and marriage before turning to fiction with the 1975 romance Emily. The Rutshire Chronicles are her longest and best known sequence. Humour, English social class, horsemanship and manners run through the work. Fifty catalogued books open with the collection Jolly Super (1970) and close with Tackle! (2023).

Jilly Gagnon has published eight catalogued books since 2016, from The Office and The Holidays that year to What If It's You? in 2025. Subject headings cover humour, satire and plot-your-own stories, alongside office management, work, business, Christmas and holidays. The Choose Your Own Misery series belongs to Gagnon. All Dressed Up / The Murder Weekend (2022), Scenes of the Crime (2023) and Love You, Mean It (2024) are the later titles. Gagnon is still publishing.

Nine books carry the Jilly Paddock credit, published between 2012 and 2019, and the catalogue groups them under a Jilly Paddock Science Fiction heading. No Earthly Shore (2012) opens the listing and Warbird (2019) closes it, with The Dragon, Fly, and other flights of fancy (2012), To Die A Stranger (2012), Dead Men Rise Up Never (2015), With Amber Tears (2015), Starchild (2017), The Spook and the Spirit in the Stone (2017) and The Beauty of Our Weapons (2019) in between. The median recorded length is 235 pages across four measured titles.

Jim Benton, born 31 October 1960, is an American illustrator and writer. It's Happy Bunny is the Benton creation most known, and other Benton properties include Dear Dumb Diary, Franny K. Stein, Dog of Glee and Just Jimmy. The catalogue lists 18 books under Grades 3-5, from Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2004) to You're Making Me Six (2021). Humorous stories, diaries, middle school and the character Jamie Kelly lead the subjects.

Supervillains, good and evil, and science fiction action appear in the subject tags for Jim Bernheimer. The 13 catalogued books date from 2009 to 2017, beginning with Horror, Humor, And Heroes (2009). Bernheimer's four series are Horror, Humor, and Heroes, D-List Supervillain, Dead Eye and Spirals of Destiny. Confessions of a D-List Supervillain (2011) and Origins of a D-List Supervillain (2014) precede Rise of a D-List Supervillain (2017), the newest title.

Jim Butcher

48 books• 7 series

Jim Butcher, born October 26, 1971, is an American author of the contemporary fantasy series The Dresden Files, as well as Codex Alera and Cinder Spires. Storm Front (2000) opens the catalogue, which includes Fool Moon (2001), Grave Peril (2001), Summer Knight (2002) and Furies of Calderon (2004), and runs to Out Law: A Dresden Files Novella (2026). Harry Dresden, wizards, private investigators and Chicago appear among the subjects. Butcher is still publishing.

Jim C. Hines

31 books• 6 series

Jim C. Hines writes fantasy and science fiction, published by DAW Books and appearing on the Locus bestseller list. The Jig the Goblin books, Goblin Quest (2004), Goblin Hero, Goblin War, put goblins and quests at the front of the subject tags, and the Faery Taile Project draws on fairy tales and princesses. Magic Ex Libris and the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follow. The catalogue holds 31 titles, from Goldfish Dreams (2003) to Slayers of Old (2025).

Disaster preparedness is the single field Jim Cobb writes in, with survival, emergency management and natural disasters among the recorded subjects. The 10 catalogued books open with Prepper's Home Defense (2012) and continue through The Prepper's Complete Book of Disaster Readiness (2013), Countdown to Preparedness (2014), Urban Emergency Survival Plan (2014), Prepper's Financial Guide (2015), Prepper's Armed Defense (2016) and Prepper's Communication Handbook (2016). Cobb is credited alone on all 10, and Prepper's Long-Term Survival arrived in 2025.

Jim Collins

10 books

Business management is Jim Collins's subject: what makes companies effective, how they grow, and how they fail. Collins, born in 1958, is an American researcher, consultant and speaker. His 10 books run from Beyond Entrepreneurship (1992) to What to Make of a Life (2026), and take in Built to Last (1994), Good to Great (2001), How the Mighty Fall (2009), Great by Choice (2011) and Turning the Flywheel (2019). Roughly four years separate one title from the next, at a median of 246 pages.

Jim DeFelice writes military thrillers and military non-fiction. The HOGS series covers air combat in the first Gulf War, Jake Gibbs: Patriot Spy works in the American Revolution, and FBI Special Agent Andy Fisher carries the contemporary espionage line. Coyote Bird (1992) opens a catalogue of 33 titles that reaches Swords of Lightning: Green Beret Horse Soldiers and America's Response to 9/11 in 2022. Navy SEALs, the Iraq War and biography appear among the listed subjects, at a median of 354 pages.

Jim Dent, born Harry James Dent in 1953, is an American author and sportswriter. The catalogue shows football books starting with King of the Cowboys: The Life and Times of Jerry Jones (1995). The Junction Boys (1999), Monster of the Midway (2003), Twelve Mighty Orphans (2007), Resurrection (2009), Courage Beyond the Game (2011) and The Kids Got It Right (2013) followed, along with Manziel Mania and The Mighty Mites in 2014. Subjects include football history, coaching, biography and the Dallas Cowboys.

Jim Eldridge, born November 1944, is an English screenwriter for radio, film and television with hundreds of scripts broadcast over a career of more than 30 years. Radio shows created by Eldridge include King Street Junior, The Demon Headmaster, Shut UP and Parsley Sidings, and television creations include Powers, Time of My Life and Uncle Jack. The catalogue holds 117 books from Down Payment On Death (1972) to The Museum Detectives' Christmas Mystery (2026), with Murder at the Vatican due in 2027. Bogeys, Boils And Bellybuttons (1986), Bad Boyes (1987) and Uncle Jack and Operation Green (1990) are early titles, and series include Museum Mysteries, Hotel Mysteries, Cathedral Mysteries, DCI Paul Stark, SAS and Disgusting Dave.

Jim Field's catalogue lists 23 children's books published between 2011 and 2021. Recorded subjects name picture books, stories in rhyme, humorous stories, animals, dogs, squirrels, monsters and self-confidence. The run opens with Cats Ahoy! (2011) and reaches The Whale Who Wanted More (2021). Magic Ink and Maxwell Mutt are the two series in the listing.

Jim Fusilli, born July 17, 1953, is an American novelist, journalist and essayist. Fusilli covered rock and pop for The Wall Street Journal from 2009 to 2018 and contributed to All Things Considered on NPR. Pet Sounds, Fusilli's contribution to the Bloomsbury 33 1/3 series, sits within a catalogue of 17 books running from Closing Time (2001) to The Price You Pay (2024). Terry Orr, Narrows Gate and Sam are the catalogued series, and recorded subjects include private investigators, New York City, fathers and daughters, and grief. Fusilli also hosts and produces the podcast Writers at Work.

Jim Harrison

46 books• 4 series

Jim Harrison (December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist and essayist who published across poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children's literature and memoir. Harrison also wrote screenplays, book reviews, literary criticism and essays on food, travel and sport, and said poetry mattered most among the work. Harrison published 24 novellas. The catalogue holds 46 books from Plain Song (1965) to The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 (2022), including Wolf (1971), Farmer (1976) and Legends of the Fall (1979). Dalva and Detective Sunderson are named series.

Jim Kelly is a British crime novelist and journalist. The Philip Dryden books put a journalist at the centre of cases set in Cambridgeshire, start with The Water Clock (2002), and earned Kelly the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library in 2006. A second sequence follows DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine along the North Norfolk coast and the port of Lynn, and its second book, Death Watch (2010), took the New Angle prize for literature. Kelly has 19 catalogued crime novels, reaching The American Suspect in 2026.

Jim Kjelgaard wrote for young readers about dogs and the outdoors. Born James Arthur Kjelgaard, he lived from 1910 to 1959 and left 45 catalogued titles published between 1941 and 1980, opening with Forest Patrol (1941) and closing with Rebel Horse (1980). Big Red (1945) names one of the two sequences here, the other collecting his short stories. Snow Dog (1948), A Nose For Trouble (1949), Wild Trek (1950) and Fire-Hunter (1951) follow. Irish setters, trappers, outdoor life, Apache Indians and fathers and sons recur as subjects.

Jim Lehrer

22 books• 1 series

Jim Lehrer (1934–2020) was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Lehrer served as executive editor and anchor of the PBS News Hour and moderated 12 presidential debates between 1988 and 2012. His fiction drew on newsroom experience, history and politics. One-Eyed Mack is his series, and Oklahoma appears among the subjects. Lehrer's 22 catalogued books start with Kick the Can (1988) and end with Top Down (2013).

Jim Marrs

14 books• 1 series

Jim Marrs, born James Farrell Marrs Jr. (December 5, 1943 to August 2, 2017), was an American newspaper journalist and author of books on alleged cover-ups and conspiracies. Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (1989) served as a source for Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK. Marrs started as a news reporter in the Dallas and Fort Worth area and taught a course on the Kennedy assassination at the University of Texas at Arlington for 30 years. Later titles include Alien Agenda (1997), The War on Freedom (2003), The Rise of the Fourth Reich (2009) and Our Occulted History (2013).

Hardboiled crime fiction is Jim Thompson's territory. Born James Myers Thompson in 1906 and died in 1977, Thompson wrote more than 30 novels, most of them original paperbacks issued from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, about swindlers, criminals, alcoholics and murderers in Oklahoma and Los Angeles. Recognition arrived late: little noticed in his lifetime beyond Anthony Boucher's reviews in The New York Times, Thompson was rediscovered when the Black Lizard imprint reissued his novels in the late 1980s. The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280 are his best-regarded books, among 33 catalogued titles dated 1942 to 1989.

Jimmy Buffett

8 books

Eight books are catalogued under Jimmy Buffett's name, most of them set around the Caribbean and Florida, with children's fiction and short stories both represented. The Jolly Mon (1988), Tales from Margaritaville (1989), Trouble Dolls (1991), Where Is Joe Merchant? (1992), A Pirate Looks at Fifty (1998) and A Salty Piece of Land (2004) make up most of the run, which ends at Swine Not? Pig Tale in 2008.

Jimmy Carter

51 books• 1 series

Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and wrote 51 books. Carter's subjects cover his own childhood and career, American politics and government, peace negotiation, the Arab-Israeli conflict and Christian faith. The catalogue opens with Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years (1975), two years before he took office, and takes in Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (1982) and The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East (1986). Later titles turn to the Bible and devotional writing, the most recent dated 2020. Books median 224 pages, and the 2000s were Carter's most productive decade.

Jimmy Sangster (2 December 1927 to 19 August 2011) was a Welsh screenwriter and film director. Sangster wrote for the first Hammer Film Productions horror pictures, among them The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958). The catalogue also lists two fiction series, James Reed and Katy Touchfeather, with Touchfeather (1970), Snowball (1986) and Hardball (1988) among the titles. The list also includes the 1997 title Do You Want It Good or Tuesday? from Hammer Films to Hollywood. Subject tags include espionage thrillers and mystery.

Jimmy Santiago Baca, born 2 January 1952, is an American poet, memoirist and screenwriter from New Mexico. Prisons, Mexican American life and the land run through the poetry, from Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (1987) and Black Mesa Poems (1989) to Immigrants in Our Own Land. A Place to Stand (2001) turns to memoir, and later work covers special education and children with disabilities. 28 titles span 1977 to The Misfits in 2022, at a median of 143 pages.

Jina Bacarr writes erotic fiction and romance. The catalogue holds 25 books published between 1990 and 2025, opening with Avenue of the Stars (1990) and reaching The Stolen Children of War (2025). Alongside the fiction sit nonfiction titles on Japanese working life, How to Work for Japanese Boss (1992) and How to Succeed in a Japanese Company (1994), matching subject headings for corporate culture, Japanese corporations and intercultural communication. Wartime Paris Sisters, O'Casey Brothers in Arms and Bennett Sisters Bed the Bad Boys are the three series listed. Bacarr graduated from the University of California at Irvine and wrote forty daytime television scripts.

Coffee, cats and witchcraft run through Jinty James's cozy mysteries. Four series divide the 45 books: the Coffee Witch mysteries, the Norwegian Forest Café mysteries, the Senior Sleuthing Club and Pru and Pip Private Investigators. Spells and Spiced Latte (2016) opens the catalogue and The Ginger Jar Deception (2026) is the newest title. Murder investigation, food trucks and women private investigators fill the subject tags.

Hetta Coffey is the character on file for Jinx Schwartz, and the Hetta Coffey Mystery books are the one series recorded under the Schwartz name. The catalogue holds 23 titles published between 2004 and 2024, opening with Just Add Water (2004) and reaching The Bluebonnet Conspiracy (2024). Just Add Salt (2006), Just Add Trouble (2007) and Just Deserts (2011) are among the catalogued books. No subject headings are on file, and Schwartz is recorded as an ongoing author.

JJ Marsh writes crime fiction and is best known for the DI Beatrice Stubbs series. Marsh's 26 catalogued books run from Behind Closed Doors (2012) to Volcano Blue (2026). Other titles include Raw Material, Tread Softly, Cold Pressed and Black Dogs, Yellow Butterflies. Beyond Beatrice Stubbs, Marsh publishes the Run and Hide Thrillers, the Years Between series and standalone novels. Murder, police investigation and international finance appear among the subjects.

JK Brandon's catalogue holds 15 books from A Howl in the Night (2001) to Dead Dogs Don't Howl (2017), and Howl is the listed series. Recorded subjects include dogs, murder, investigation and suburban life. A Howl at Midnight, A Howl for Help and The Twilight Howl carry 2012 dates, and Howling through Darkness and Less Howl, More Wag came in 2013. The listing also includes The Kennedy Rifle (2012) and Tactical Reload (2012), and other recorded subjects are presidents, assassination and conspiracies.

Jo Allen is the author of the DCI Satterthwaite series. The catalogue lists 13 books from 2019 to 2025, with Death by Dark Waters (2019) first and Death at the Double (2025) the newest. Death at Eden's End (2019), Death on Coffin Lane (2020), Death in the Mist (2021), Death on the Crags (2022) and Death at the Three Sisters (2023) are among them. Jo Allen is still publishing.

Jo Ann Brown writes Christian romance, both historical and contemporary, with Amish and clean romance among the subject tags. The catalogue lists 42 books from 2010 to 2026. Time to Share and Secret in the Stitches date from 2010, followed by The House on Lookout Mountain (2011) and The Thousand Stories Quilt (2012). A Bride for the Baron (2014), Amish Homecoming (2015) and Family in the Making (2015) come later, and A Family for the Amish Orphans (2026) is the newest. Series include Amish Spinster Club, Green Mountain Blessings, Secrets of Bliss Valley, Amish of Lost River, Sanctuary Bay and Matchmaking Babies.

Jo Ann J.A. Ferguson wrote Regency and historical romance. Her catalogue holds 71 books published between 1988 and 2015, from Nothing Wagered (1988) to Lord Radcliffe's Season (2015). Ferguson's series include the Priscilla Flanders mysteries, the Dream Chronicle, the Foxbridge Legacy, the Dunsworthy Brides and the Shadow of the Bastille Trilogy. Nobility, manners and English social life carry most of the books, at a median of 255 pages.

Jo Baker is a British writer, and the sourced record counts six novels under the name, Longbourn among them. Nine books are catalogued here, from Offcomer (2002) to The Midnight News (2023). Baker has written short stories for BBC Radio 4, plus reviews for The Guardian and for The New York Times Book Review. A Visiting Fellowship at Queen's University Belfast followed in 2018, and Baker holds an Honorary Fellowship at Lancaster University. The Mermaid's Child (2004), The Telling (2008), Longbourn (2013), A Country Road, A Tree (2016) and The Body Lies (2019) sit in the run, and Samuel Beckett in Company is the series grouped under the name.

Jo Bannister is a British crime novelist, born on 31 July 1951 in Rochdale, Lancashire. Series include Brodie Farrell, Castlemere, Hazel Best & Gabriel Ash, Clio Rees & Harry Marsh, Mickey Flynn and Rosie Holland. The catalogue records 43 books from The Matrix (1981) to China Roses (2021), with Winter Plain (1982), A Cactus Garden (1983), Striving with Gods (1984), Gilgamesh (1989) and Shards (1990) among the earlier titles. Subject headings name England, policewomen, women private investigators, police procedurals and missing persons.

Cornwall and the English seaside hold most of Jo Bartlett's romance. The Cornish Midwife and Cornish Country Hospital series sit at the centre of the catalogue, with Seabreeze Farm, Channel View Farm, St Nicholas Bay and the Cosy Kettle-style feel-good titles around them. Fifty-nine books run from The Gift of Christmas Yet to Come (2014) to Mending Hearts at the Cornish Country Hospital (2026).

Jo Beverley (1947-2016), born Mary Josephine Dunn, was an English-Canadian author of historical and contemporary romance. Regency England and its nobility supply most of the settings, with the Mallorens and the Company of Rogues as the two groups readers follow across books. Beverley's 63 catalogued titles open with Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed (1988) and end with Merely a Marriage in 2017. Translations into several languages and multiple awards followed the work.

Jo Callaghan writes the Kat and Lock series. Four books are catalogued: In The Blink of An Eye (2023), Human Remains (2025), Leave No Trace (2025) and Body of Lies (2026). All four belong to that single series, published across four years, and Callaghan remains actively publishing.

Jo Clayton wrote science fiction and fantasy across 35 catalogued books published between 1977 and 2002. Diadem from the Stars (1977) opens the run, with Irsud and Lamarchos in 1978, Maeve (1979), Star Hunters (1980), Moongather (1982) and Moonscatter (1983). Subject tags name magic, wizards, women soldiers and the character Skeen. Series headings include Duel of Sorcery and its Dancer sequence, Drinker of Souls and its Wild Magic sequence, Skeen, Drums of Chaos, and the Diadem lines Shadith's Quest and Shadowsong. Drum Into Silence (2002) closes the listing.

Jo Dereske writes cozy mystery around librarians. Helma Zukas, a librarian in the imaginary town of Bellehaven, Washington, carries the Miss Zukas series, which opens with Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (1994) and continues through the Island Murders (1995), the Stroke of Death (1995) and Out of Circulation (1997). A second series follows Ruby Crane. The 20 catalogued books run from Glom Gloom (1985) to All of Us at the Same Time (2014), and nothing has followed 2014.

Jo Goodman writes historical romance, westerns included. Forty-three books are catalogued between The Captain's Lady (1984) and Ramsey Rules (2020), with recorded subjects covering ranchers, physicians, private investigators, brothers, missing persons and manners and customs. The Dennehy Sisters, McClellan Family, Compass Club, Thorne Brothers, Bitter Springs, Reidsville and Cowboys of Colorado series all appear in the listing.

Jo Grafford has 144 books catalogued between 2013 and 2026, with subjects tagged historical, romance, westerns and suspense. Breaking Ties (2013) is the first title and Undercover Hero (2026) the newest. Born In Texas, Heart Lake, Mail Order Brides Rescue, Brides of Cedar Falls, Cowboy Brand of Justice, Lost Colony, Black Tie Billionaires and Vikings Saga are among the series. Viking Born, Viking By Day and Viking For Hire were all published in 2015.

Jo Graham is an American novelist, born in 1968, who debuted with Black Ships in 2008 - a retelling of the Aeneid that earned a Locus Award nomination for Best First Novel. Hand of Isis, published in 2009, returns the central figure of that first book in a new incarnation. Her catalogue of 20 titles crosses historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction, runs through The Blood of the Bull in 2025, and includes one book shared with Amy Griswold. Graham writes the Numinous World, Calpurnian Wars and Memoirs of the Borgia Sibyl series.

Jo Hamilton published 13 books between 2019 and 2021, according to the catalogue. Hamilton's series are the Wickeden Inquisitor Mysteries, Lakesford and Sleuth John Malone. The earliest title is The Elusive Mister Green (2019) and the newest is The Vessel of Secrets (2021). Other titles include The Alchemist's Poison, The Fourth Sister, The Map of Scars and The Witch On Main Street.

Jo Lovett's catalogued books run from 2020 to 2026, tagged under English literature. The First Time We Met (2020) is the earliest. The House Swap and The Mistletoe Pact date from 2021, Just Friends from 2022, and Another Time, Another Place from 2023. Can You Keep a Secret? and We Were on a Break appeared in 2024, and It's Not Me, It's You in 2025. Just for the Season (2026) is the newest title, and Jo Lovett is still publishing.

Jo Murray has one catalogued title, Dissection of a Murder, published in 2026. No earlier Jo Murray books are recorded in this directory, and the entry is marked ongoing rather than complete.

Crime fiction accounts for much of Jo Nesbo's catalogue, which holds 31 books published between 1997 and 2026. Harry Hole is the recurring character of the longest series credited to Nesbo, a run that opens with The Bat (1997) and takes in The Redbreast (2000), The Devil's Star (2003) and The Snowman (2007). Catalogue subjects list police, murder, investigation, serial murder investigation and Norway, along with humorous stories, inventors and flatulence from the Doctor Proctor books. Blood on Snow, standalone novels and short fiction complete the listing. Kill Shot (2026) is the newest title, and Nesbo continues to publish.

Jo Piazza is an American journalist and editor who writes books alongside her reporting. The catalogue holds 12 titles, from Celebrity, Inc. (2011) to The Parisian Heist (2026), taking in If Nuns Ruled the World (2014), The Knockoff (2015), Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win (2018) and The Sicilian Inheritance (2024). We Are Not Like Them (2021), written with Christine Pride, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick. Piazza hosts the Under the Influence podcast and has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Slate.

Jo Segura writes the Raiders of the Lost Heart books, a four-title series that opens with Raiders of the Lost Heart (2023) and runs through Temple of Swoon (2025) and The Lust Crusade (2026), with Guilty Treasure scheduled for 2027. Treasure hunting and romance drive the titles, and Segura remains an active author.

Murder and investigation in Ireland anchor Jo Spain's crime fiction. Fourteen catalogued books run from With Our Blessing in 2015 to Never To Be Found in 2026, split between the Inspector Tom Reynolds mysteries and a line of standalone thrillers that takes in The Confession (2018) and Dirty Little Secrets (2019). Secrecy, public office and death recur as subjects, and Spain continues to publish.

Jo Walton

24 books• 3 series

Jo Walton, born 1964, is a Welsh-Canadian writer of fantasy and science fiction, and a poet. Among Others took both the Hugo and the Nebula in 2012, Tooth and Claw the World Fantasy Award in 2004, Lifelode the Mythopoeic Award in 2010 and My Real Children the Tiptree Award in 2015. The Small Change books, Farthing, Ha'penny and Half a Crown, set alternate history against the cozy mystery. Walton's catalogue holds 24 titles from The King's Peace (2000) to Everybody's Perfect, dated 2026, with Tir Tanagiri and Thessaly the recorded series.

Romance writer Jo Watson has two series in the catalogue, Destination Love and Elevated Love. The 14 books begin with Burning Moon (2013) and run to The Ex Effect (2025). Almost a Bride (2017), Love to Hate You (2018) and Big Boned (2021) are part of the list. Subject headings include erotic romance, Greece, adoptees, birthfathers, tour guides and vacations. Jo Watson is still publishing.

Jo-Ann Mapson is an American novelist, born on March 29, 1952, whose fiction is set mainly in the American Southwest. The catalogue holds 14 books, from Fault Line (1989) to Love, Fred Astaire (2016). Mapson's series are Bad Girl Creek, Chloe and Solomon's Oak. Subjects on the books include sisters, grief, friendship, California and Santa Fe.

Joan Aiken

125 books• 12 series

Joan Aiken (Joan Delano Aiken, 4 September 1924 to 4 January 2004) was an English writer of supernatural fiction and alternative history novels for children. The Whispering Mountain (1968) won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was commended for the Carnegie Medal, and Night Fall won an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1972. Aiken received an MBE in 1999 for services to children's literature. The catalogue lists 125 books from All You've Ever Wanted (1953) to 2020, including The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962) and the Wolves Chronicles, Arabel and Mortimer and Felix Brooke series.

Joan D. Vinge

24 books• 3 series

The Snow Queen (1980), winner of the Hugo Award, is the best-known novel of American science fiction author Joan D. Vinge, born Joan Carol Dennison on April 2, 1948. Vinge continued The Snow Queen in sequels, wrote a series about a telepath called Cat, and wrote the Heaven Chronicles. The catalogue lists 24 books from Eyes of Amber and Other Stories (1977) to Ladysmith (2012), including Psion (1982) and film storybooks for Return of the Jedi and Dune.

Joan Didion

30 books

Joan Didion wrote essays and novels about American social conditions, politics and the places she reported from. Run River (1963) is the earliest catalogued title, followed by Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Play It As It Lays (1970), The White Album (1979), Salvador (1983) and Miami (1987). Thirty books are listed, the newest Notes to John in 2025, at 238 pages on median.

Joan Druett is a New Zealand historian and novelist working in maritime history and crime fiction. Exotic Intruders (1983) opens a catalogue of 28 titles that ends with The Discovery of Tahiti in 2019. The history covers whaling, ship captains, seafaring life and shipwreck survival, in Petticoat Whalers (1992), Hen Frigates (1998), She Captains (2000) and In the Wake of Madness (2003). The Wiki Coffin Mysteries supply the fiction, and the median Druett book runs 280 pages.

Joan Hall Hovey writes romantic suspense and psychological thrillers, with 11 books catalogued between 1991 and 2023. Listen to the Shadows (1991) and Nowhere to Hide (1993) are the earliest titles. Chill Waters (2004), Night Corridor (2011), The Abduction of Mary Rose (2011), The Deepest Dark (2014) and And Then He Was Gone (2016) follow. A Long Dark Road (2023) is the newest. Subjects include women psychologists, authors and escaped prisoners.

Joan Hess's mysteries run in three series: Claire Malloy, a bookseller who investigates; Arly Hanks, a policewoman in the imaginary Arkansas town of Maggody; and Theo Bloomer. The catalogue holds 45 books, from Strangled Prose (1985) to Caveat Emptor and Other Stories in 2016, with Malice in Maggody (1987) and Dear Miss Demeanor (1987) among the early titles. The catalogue is listed as likely complete.

Joan Holub, born in Texas in 1956, has written and illustrated over 180 children's books and also publishes as Rita Book and Brad Bucks. The catalogue lists 184 Holub titles from If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution (1987) to This Little Engineer (2023), with a median length of 48 pages. Subject tags include Greek mythology, Greek goddesses, stories in rhyme, schools and ants. Holub series include Goddess Girls, Mini Myths, Ant Hill, Doll Hospital, Young Princesses Around the World and Smart About History.